Both Uses of
dissipate
in
Arrowsmith
- This autumn the Digams elected Ira Hinkley, because they had been gaining a reputation for dissipation—girls were said to have been smuggled in late at night—and no company which included the Reverend Mr. Hinkley could possibly be taken by the Dean as immoral, which was an advantage if they were to continue comfortably immoral.†
Chpt 2
- He had an informal but agreeable notion of spending his first evening of freedom in dissipation.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(dissipate) to gradually disappear; or to gradually waste